Latest articles on José Eduardo Dos Santos

Angola’s dos Santos family empire in the firing line

Africa Agency - 16 Jan 2020

Law enforcement agencies are cracking down on the high profile family of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, accused of plundering revenues from...

Africa’s ‘dinosaurs’ are dying out

Africa Alex Vines - 3 Jan 2020

Countries in political transition have very little time in which to deliver socioeconomic and political change

Angola bets on largest-ever offshore oil investment

Africa Philippe Alfroy - 13 Nov 2018

Angola was badly hit by the oil-price plunge in 2014

Angola: The fall of the Dos Santos clan

Africa Deutsche Welle 1 & Antonio Cascais - 30 Sep 2018

One year ago, the Dos Santos family handed the Angolan presidency over to João Lourenço. Now the ex-president's son has been arrested

Lourenço’s first year: Angola’s transitional politics

Africa Alex Vines - 26 Sep 2018

João Lourenço’s first year in office has been marked by notable reforms. If ordinary Angolans are to benefit this momentum must continue

Angola’s ex president steps down as party chief

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 8 Sep 2018

The passing of the baton between the two men is the climax of a handover marked by barely disguised friction

Angola: Ex-president’s son planned to steal $1.5-billion

Africa Agency - 15 Apr 2018

Jose Filomeno dos Santos planned to siphon off $1.5-billion when he ran Luanda's sovereign wealth fund, government says.

Dos Santos’s son charged with fraud

Africa Agency - 27 Mar 2018

Jose Filomeno dos Santos has been accused of the illegal transfer of $500-million when he was the head of the country's sovereign wealth fund

The silver lining in Ali Bongo’s power grab in Gabon

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 5 Mar 2018

The country's constitutional changes mirror trends where incumbents have tinkered with their constitutions, but change will come

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Angola’s Lourenco keeps pressure on Dos Santos cronies

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 15 Jan 2018

Lourenco's manoeuvering against the nepotistical vestiges of Angola's last president began in November with the toppling of Isabel dos Santos

Angolan leader denies tensions with predecessor despite clean-up campaign

Africa Agency - 9 Jan 2018

In November, within three months of taking control of Angola, Lourenco sacked dos Santos's daughter — Africa's richest woman

Mixed outlook for Africa in 2018

Article Alex Vines - 5 Jan 2018

The leaders for life will face challenges. Debt levels and servicing costs will plague governments. And conflict hotspots won’t cool down

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Angola oil giant probes Isabel dos Santos graft claims

Africa Agence France Presse - 20 Dec 2017

In recent weeks, several Angolan media outfits have accused dos Santos of ordering suspect transfers and payments worth tens of millions of dollars.

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As skittles topple in Zim and Angola, is Zuma navel-gazing?

Article Paddy Harper - 17 Nov 2017

'At times like this, the city’s charm wears thin. Durban might as well be in Mongolia. Or Zimbabwe'

Who is Angola’s next president João Lourenço?

Africa Antonio Cascais - 26 Sep 2017

Angola's João Lourenço will be sworn in on Tuesday as the president but who is the man who ran on the ticket of the MPLA?

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